The Conversation, Battles Without Honor & Humanity, Good Will Hunting, Ugetsu, The Deer Hunter, Almost Famous, Seven Samurai, Jaws, The 400 Blows, Manhattan, Rocky, Do the Right Thing, The Best of Youth
Chet Baker, Ryan Adams, Ben Folds, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Jeff Buckley, Pernice Brothers, various Chamber Pop.
Shark Week, Flight of the Concords, The Office (UK), Arrested Development, Planet Earth, The Blue Planet, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Big Love
Things Fall Apart, Catch 22, Short Cuts, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Calvin & Hobbes, Naked, Watchmen, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, World War Z. Slaughterhouse Five.
my wife's cooking, Dario Argento movies, pong, sunshine, a song you can put on repeat for hours, Streets of Rage 2 on the sega, All Things Considered and The Thomas Jefferson Hour on NPR, songs that make fun of LA, the Ministry of Silly Walks, impersonations that sound nothing like the real thing.